Early Civilization
People in ancient civilizations had different jobs, responsibilities, and levels of power. What does this tell us about their society?
They had different social roles and classes
This is the land, water, plants, animals, and other things around where people live
What is environment?
Nobles, merchants, and dukes were all part of society during this historical period.
What is medieval times?
The different jobs and responsibilities people have in a society are called social ___?
What are roles?
If a community lives in a cold environment, what is something that might be different about the way they live?
What is clothing, housing, and food?
Many early civilizations were built near these because people needed water for farming, food, and transportation.
What are rivers?
First Nations communities often worked together by sharing jobs and responsibilities. What is this called?
What is cooperation?
A person’s job, wealth, and responsibilities could depend on which social group they belonged to
What is social class?
In a society, this person or group may make important decisions and help organize the community.
What is leader/government?
This could affect a person's job, home, responsibilities, education, and opportunities within a society.
What is social class?
In ancient Greece, these were independent communities that had their own governments and ways of life
What are city states?
Why might two First Nations communities have different homes, food, or ways of travelling?
Because they lived in different environments and had different resources
A tendent that lives in an estate and pays rent
What is a Serf?
What do we call it when some people in a society have more wealth, power, or opportunities than others?
What is social inequality?
Why would living near a river change the way an early civilization lived?
It could provide water, food, transportation, and land for farming
A system where people are born into a certain social group
What is the caste system?
In societies like the Anishinaabe or Inuit, children didn't learn from textbooks or sit at desks. What were two ways young people learned the skills they needed for daily life?
What is listening to Elders/storytellers and what is practicing through hands-on work and play?
Dukes, lords, and other wealthy and powerful people belonged to this social group
What is nobility?
A noble and a serf lived in the same medieval society. Why might they have had very different experiences?
Because they had different social positions, jobs, responsibilities, and levels of wealth/power.
The Cree traveled by birchbark canoes on the water in the summer, but switched to these special wooden tools on their feet to walk on top of deep snow in the winter.
What are snow shoes?
To feed their communities, the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee used any ONE of these clever methods to catch fish in lakes and rivers
What is fish weir, spear fishing, ice fishing or net fishing?
What is one way the environment could affect how a First Nations community lived?
It could affect their food, homes, clothing, transportation, or activities
This system organized medieval society into different groups with different jobs, responsibilities, and levels of power.
What is feudalism?
A merchant travels to another community to exchange goods. What type of relationship is being shown?
What is trade?
In a matrilineal society, family and clan connections are traced through which side of the family?
What is the mother's side?